Buzzflash
del.icio.us
Digg
Facebook
Mixx it!
RedditThe widows of great men either gracefully retire from history's stage or take their own lonely road. Coretta Scott King had little hesitancy about carrying on her husband's work. As she said in 1956, "All along I have supported my husband in this cause...whatever happens to him, it happens to me." Just four days after his assassination, in 1968, she marched with the garbage workers he had championed and began work on the Poor People's Campaign. She continued to walk in his steps, but eventually she found her own cadence. She was active in the Nuclear Freeze movement and preached nonviolence. She went on to support gay rights and AIDS victims. She was, as SCLC co-founder the Rev. Joseph Lowery said, "the first First Lady of the movement."
Share this article
-
Noted.
You don't have to go to Copenhagen to join the activists racing against the ticking environmental bomb.
-
Beyond Copenhagen
Global Warming & Climate Change
Many obstacles stand in the path of a successful global agreement. But Obama can still take the lead on fighting climate change.
-
Noted.
"Tobin Tax" on the table; Palestinian Authority in peril; predictable Islamophobia after the Fort Hood shootings.
- Get The Nation at home (and online!) for 68 cents a week!
- If you like this article, consider making a donation to The Nation.
- Reprint this article. Click here for rights and information.
RSS